From life-saving drugs and synthetic polymers to diverse advanced materials, the products containing organic compounds seem endless, thanks in part to regioselectivity, a feature in chemical reactions ...

Thanks to the superstrength of the silicon-fluorine bond, chemists at the University of Zurich have developed a new incarnation of the venerable Friedel-Crafts reaction: intramolecular aryl-aryl ...

Harvard University’s Emily P. Balskus, Hitomi Nakamura, and Erica E. Schultz have discovered an enzyme, dubbed CylK, that accomplishes this same transformation during the biosynthesis of ...

Asymmetric Friedel–Crafts reactions harness chiral catalysts to induce enantioselective carbon–carbon bond formation between activated arenes and electrophiles. Over the past two decades, advances in ...

THERE has been reported a critical minimum catalyst concentration of 0·03 per cent in the low-temperature polymerization of isobutene in the liquid phase using boron trifluoride, aluminium chloride or ...

In 1877, Charles Friedel and James Craft discovered a chemical reaction for quickly producing raw materials for plastics, fine chemicals and detergents. More than 100 years later, in 1994, the ...

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